16 dead after plane skids off runway in southern India

A special flight carrying evacuees to India who had been stranded abroad because of coronavirus skidded off a runway and split in two while landing in heavy rain, killing at least 16 passengers and injuring 123 more, police said.

Abdul Karim, a senior Kerala state police officer, said the dead included one of the pilots of the Air India Express flight.

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